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PCOM’s Acupuncture Clinics for the Homeless Featured in the San Diego Union-Tribune

Pacific College — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 21:27:42 +0000

PCOM-SD’s acupuncture clinics for the homeless were recently featured in an article by the San Diego Union-Tribune. Check out an excerpt below or read the full article! The Growing Importance of Alternative Therapies for Homeless Communities Free clinics commonly offer homeless and low-income people medical and dental services, but some San Diego clinics also offer …

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3 Key Ways Acupuncture Supports Men’s Health

Pacific College — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 14:29:11 +0000

We recently came up with 10 important ways that acupuncture benefits women. While men, too, certainly enjoy improvements in mood, sleep, pain, and addiction recovery just like women do, there are three additional improvements that men can expect from a course of treatment delivered by the hands of a skilled Chinese medicine practitioner. 1) Improvements …

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Pacific College of Oriental Medicine Celebrates 30th Anniversary

Pacific College — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 19:01:32 +0000

This year (2016), Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (PCOM) turns 30. Since PCOM opened in 1986, the San Diego campus has seen about 2500 master’s and massage graduates, New York about 2100, Chicago 700, and PCOM has hosted thousands of attendees at 27 years of the Pacific Symposium. The Founding and Growth of Pacific College …

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Energy and Feng Shui

Pacific College — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 21:56:11 +0000

Science has proven that everything is made up of energy. In the Chinese art and science of Feng Shui we call energy qi. The Egyptians call it Ka, the Hebrew have Ruach, the Japanese have Ki, and the Indians call it Prana. Qi is condensed and dispersed in alternative cycles of positive (sheng qi) and …

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Daylight Savings Time 2016: Tips for Springing Forward

Pacific College — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:03:50 +0000

Spring forward this Sunday with these tips for adjusting your body along with your clock for Daylight Savings Time 2016!

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Leap Day Traditions Across Time and Cultures

Pacific College — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 21:13:37 +0000

Have you ever wondered why we add one day to February every four years? It turns out that the history of leap year is a long and very complex one, having much to do with the inexact number of whole days it takes our Earth to complete a full orbit around the Sun: 365.2422 days, …

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PCOM’s Collaborative Off-Site Internship at Columbia University

Pacific College — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 21:30:39 +0000

In 2013, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine collaborated with the Integrative Medicine Working Group at Columbia University, New York, NY to add an acupuncture session for students on the university’s Morningside campus. For the past two years, the new acupuncture session has had about 2000 campus visits each year, with a no-show rate of less than 5% and high patient-satisfaction scores. The …

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ILaaom, Quad A Representatives Meet with Secretary of Illinois DFPR on Dry Needling

Pacific College — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 22:53:09 +0000

December 2015 – Pacific College of Oriental Medicine – Chicago was well-represented at a December 2015 private meeting with the Secretary of the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation. A representative of Quad A (the Asian American Association of Acupuncturists, Chicago) and representatives of ILaaom (Illinois Association of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine), all of whom were PCOM graduates, were …

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Retrospective: Pacific Symposium 2015

Pacific College — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:07:51 +0000

Thank you, everyone, for a successful 2015 Pacific Symposium, hosted at the Catamaran Resort Hotel in San Diego, CA from October 28 – November 3rd. With speakers and attendees from nearly every state in the country and several other nations besides, the 27th Symposium may have been our best yet! Jeffrey Yuen, Mazin Al-Khafaji, and Jill Blakeway were …

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Naomi C. Broering Hispanic Heritage Award/Grant

Pacific College — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 19:17:37 +0000

On May 18, 2015, Naomi C. Broering, PCOM’s Dean of Libraries, received the Medical Library Association’s (MLA) first Hispanic heritage award at the annual MLA conference in Austin, Texas. Named the Naomi C. Broering Hispanic Heritage Award, the award honors and recognizes her past accomplishments in medical librarianship and library informatics. Naomi has a long …

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